On 9/24/09, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 24 Sep 2009 12:37:02 pm Manvendra Bhangui wrote: >> > Qmail is non-free software and so is AD and win2k3 >> >> qmail was always free. It was released into public domain in Nov 2007. > > please find out the meaning of 'free software' before you make statements > like > this. Qmail does not satisfy the 4 freedoms - and it never did >> You can read > > yes, I learnt to do so when I was about 4-5 years old (how did you know?) >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmail > > wikipedia is not an authoritative source of information - please do not > quote > it to bolster your arguments
The author of qmail I am sure knows more than you. In the words of DJB (author of qmail) http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html "I hereby place the qmail package (in particular, qmail-1.03.tar.gz, with MD5 checksum 622f65f982e380dbe86e6574f3abcb7c) into the public domain. You are free to modify the package, distribute modified versions, etc. This does not mean that modifications are encouraged! Please take time to ensure that your distribution of qmail supports exactly the same interface as everyone else's. In particular, if you move files, please set up symbolic links from the original locations, so that you don't frivolously break scripts that work everywhere else. " -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
